据当地媒体报道，俄罗斯西伯利亚地区一名28岁的实验室工作人员可能接触过肺鼠疫后死亡，目前近200人正在接受医学观察。虽然俄罗斯当局尚未确认她的确切死因，但该国消费者权益保护部门周日表示，伊尔库茨克一家抗鼠疫研究所的这名研究人员死于“病因不明的肺炎”。该部门表示，伊尔库茨克地区以及伊尔库茨克市和舍列霍夫市的“卫生流行病学情况”是“稳定的”。
Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports. While Russian authorities have not confirmed her exact cause of death, the country’s consumer welfare service said Sunday that the researcher at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk had died of “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” or origin. It said the “sanitary-epidemiological situation” in the Irkutsk region and the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov was “stable.”
据俄罗斯媒体报道，这一事件促使卫生官员将近200名与该研究人员有过接触的人置于预防性医学观察之下。报道援引了一位地区领导人的话。与蒙古接壤的舍列霍夫市市长马克西姆·莫丁周五表示，该研究人员接受治疗的住院设施已被关闭进行隔离。据世界卫生组织称，肺鼠疫尤其具有传染性，“可能引发严重的流行病”。
The incident prompted health officials to place nearly 200 people who had been in contact with the researcher under precautionary medical observation, according to Russian media reports, which cited a regional leader. Maksim Modin, mayor of the Shelekhov municipal district near the border with Mongolia, said Friday that the inpatient facility where the researcher was treated had been closed for quarantine. The pneumonic form of plague is especially contagious and “can trigger severe epidemics,” according to the World Health Organization.
世卫组织周一没有立即回应就俄罗斯疑似病例置评的请求。美国国务院表示，正在与疾病控制中心和其他机构一道密切关注事态发展。国务院在向多家媒体发表的声明中表示：“许多细节尚未得到证实。”“我们鼓励俄罗斯当局迅速、公开地分享准确信息。”克里姆林宫没有立即回应置评请求。曾在2022年至2023年担任白宫新冠应对协调员的阿希什·贾博士表示，需要莫斯科提供“更多”信息和透明度。
The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday about the suspected case in Russia. The State Department said it was closely monitoring the situation along with the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies. “Many details have not been confirmed,” the department said in a statement to multiple media outlets. “We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly.”The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Dr. Ashish Jha, who served as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator from 2022 to 2023, said “much more” information and transparency was needed from Moscow.
他在接受NBC新闻采访时表示，如果这是肺鼠疫的孤立病例，且没有其他人死亡，“它很可能就到此为止了。”
If this is an isolated case of pneumonic plague and no one else dies, “it will probably end there,” he told NBC News in an interview.
“如果这些实验室中存在武器计划，特别是生物武器计划，那将让我更加担忧，”他说。“我们现在需要弄清楚这一点。”肺鼠疫与腺鼠疫由同一种细菌引起，可通过空气中的呼吸道飞沫在人与人之间传播，通常源于打喷嚏或咳嗽。医学专家表示，病例需要迅速使用强效抗生素进行治疗，以防止死亡。但贾说，肺鼠疫“实际上很难”在人与人之间传播。
“If there were weapons programs, biological weapons programs in these labs, that would be much more concerning to me,” he said. “We need to understand that now.”The pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets, typically from sneezing or coughing. Medical experts say cases require rapid treatment with powerful antibiotics to prevent fatalities. But “it’s actually very hard” for pneumonic plague to spread from person to person, Jha said.
“我们可能会看到少数几个人被感染，但这演变成更大规模疫情，更不用说全球大流行的可能性极低，”他说。该机构上周表示，从2019年到2025年，10个国家向世界卫生组织报告了超过3800例疑似人间鼠疫病例。其中6个国家最终确认了病例，大多数病例出现在刚果民主共和国和马达加斯加，共造成423人死亡。
“We may see a few more people get infected, but the chances that this becomes a larger outbreak, let alone a global pandemic, is exceedingly low,” he said. From 2019 to 2025, 10 countries reported more than 3,800 suspected human plague cases to the WHO, the agency said last week. Six of the countries ended up having confirmed cases, most of them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar, with 423 deaths.